Elena Gubanova

Painter, graphic artist, sculptress, object artist, installation artist. Born in the family of Vadim Gubanov in the city of Ulyanovsk on the River Volga (1960). Studied at the Boris Johanson Secondary School of Art in Leningrad (1976–79) and under Yevsei Moiseyenko at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1980–86). Member of the Union of Artists (1989) and the St Petersburg Creative Union of Artists (1993). Collaborated with Ivan Govorkov (from 1990). Lives and works in St Petersburg. Contributed to exhibitions (from 1987), including Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), Collage in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2005–06), Adventures of the Black Square at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2007) and Poésie de l’eau dans l’Art Russe at the Palais Lumie?re in Evian (2007).